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      dissect
      verb
      make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of
      cut open or cut apart
      Roots
      disdis- · Latin · apart, notseco-sect · Latin · cut
      Synonyms for dissect
      analyzevanatomizev
      Words related to dissect
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